projects placemakers Palm Hotel Sri Lanka 074 September 2020 hospitalitydesign.com The Palm Hotel Sri Lanka blends European Brutalism and Asian modernist design Photos by HOLLY FARRIER and TOM WELSH Done with city life and ready for a change, former East Londoners Miriam Haniffa and Laurie Spencer packed up their Shoreditch home and two young children in 2016 and moved to Sri Lanka with the plan to open a boutique hotel. "We felt drawn by the boho spirit of the south coast beaches and surf breaks that first lured in hippies and surfers in the 1960s," Spencer says. "It seemed like the perfect place to create a new breed of tropical lifestyle retreat."http://www.hospitalitydesign.com